(Jr) (1928-) US novelist. His acclaimed first novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn 1964, vividly depicted urban vice and violence.
It was the subject of obscenity trials in Britain 1966 and 1967. Similar portrayals followed in his later novels The Room 1971, The Demon 1976, Requiem for a Dream 1978, and in the stories of Song of the Silent Snow 1986.

City in South Dakota (USA); zip code 57472.